intriguer

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A person who practises expediency in preference to morality; an intriguer or schemer.

From BBC • May 23, 2013

Young Vladimir was deeply influenced by the Russian revolutionary tradition stemming from the anarchists, by the peasant-dreamer Tkachev, and by the demonic intriguer Nechaev.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Canton, Ho worked for Borodin, the Russian intriguer who helped undermine China.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a latched compartment of the wagons-lits rode an elderly intriguer, Prince Barbu Stirbey of Rumania, and his elegant daughter, Princess Elise, wife of a British major.

From Time Magazine Archive

For a skilled intriguer Steinbaum was ridiculously nervous.

From His Unknown Wife by Tracy, Louis